93. EL, Berlin, 12-16-'11
In our
meditations we'll soon notice that something like an inhibiting
force is opposing us. We must get to know it and see that it's
related to the earth's destructive power. The earth is involved
in a destructive process. Outer science knows that certain new
formations on the earth's surface are produced by destructive
forces. The latter were on the increase since the middle of the
Atlantean epoch through the karma that men created. Karma that has
not been made good intensifies the earth's destructive forces,
and the earth had already become a physical corpse that would have
had to fall out completely from the plan of evolution if a strong
power hadn't intervened. Everything that's connected with
earth evolution is permeated by these destructive powers or Luciferic
beings who remained behind on old Moon. A wise being saw this and
remained behind even earlier on old Moon and old Sun in order to be
able to mix a virginal element into earth evolution that's not
taken hold of by destructive forces. Upbuilding forces worked until
the middle of the Atlantean epoch. Men saw them behind the maya. Men
increased the weight of destructive forces ever more through their
unadjusted karma so that by the Mystery of Golgotha on April 3, 33,
the scale's crossbeam was level, and then Christ's deed
was placed on the other pan. He connected himself with the earth, so
that now every man can find the Christ deep within his soul. A man
would have had to drown in the maya that surrounds him, but the
Christ connected himself with earth evolution, so that a man can find
him again behind maya.
We know
why this maya was woven by the Gods. It was so that a man did not
live in the world of real things and have to be fettered by its
glory, but could relate to it freely. We know what our states of
waking and sleeping are. In ancient times, a man still saw divine
beings through the veil of maya at the moment of waking, but at the
time of the Mystery of Golgotha, he only saw demonic ones. Then the
portal closed completely and man had to drown in maya. In ancient
times the mantle or power of Elijah had to be given to Elisha so that
he could divide the Jordan and walk through it safely; whereas
Christ's forerunner dipped men into the Jordan. A man had to go
through water; but a material is given out of which he can himself
make a bridge to cross it instead of drowning in it. Christ offers
himself as this material.
Now a
man might look upon the fact that he's supposed to join this
victorious Christ force as an incursion upon his freedom. But the
Christ leaves us so free with respect to the acceptance of his being,
that he can't be found with anything earthly, not even with the
intellect or reason, because they're something compulsive for
men. Intellect and reason are permeated by Luciferic forces. Before
they intervened, Christ remained behind and so men find him in the
mystical sub-depth of their being. Previous religions were an
expression of the respective state of science, and it's
considered to be a shortcoming of Christianity that it's not at
all connected with external science. In the future, it'll go
beyond everything that is outwardly findable and knowable, and even
today it can only be found in one's inner experience. How the
revelation of Christ will take place in the near future has often
been indicated.
Surrounded by maya wherever we look, something real sounds forth from
us — a strong longing that lives in every human soul; for we are
born from God. And we won't drown in more maya, for we die in
Christ; deadly separatedness submerges in divine egoity. And
we'll rise again, whole, strong and free; we'll be
resurrected out of the Holy Spirit. So much has been stimulated by
these words that you should open up for yourself in mediation that
you have far more decades of work with them than are in the rest of
your incarnation. Place these facts in your souls, shut out the
surging of maya, and they'll become living forces in you.
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